Matriciana Pasta Sauce
1 hour 20 minutes
A delicious tomato based pasta sauce. It's also very good with parmigianas.
5 people made this
Ingredients
Serves: 4
- 100g streaky bacon, without rind
- 2 tbls olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 800g tin tomatoes, chopped
- 2 tbl tomato paste
- 1 red capsicum, diced
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- To Serve
- Pasta of choice
Directions
Preparation:20min ›
Cook:1hour ›
Ready in:1hour20min
- Dice bacon.
- Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan and saute the diced bacon, finely chopped onion and garlic for about 5 minutes or until golden, stirring occasionally.
- Add the tomatoes, the tomato paste, diced red pepper and sugar. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
- Simmer the sauce gently, uncovered, for about 1 hour. Taste and re-season if needed before serving on hot pasta.
